Dr. Drescher’s pioneering award-winning work in the areas of gender and sexuality has brought innovation to psychoanalytic treatment and theory--specifically, major, critical re-thinking based on solid scientific evidence and what is actually known rather than outdated assumptions about gender and sexuality.

Dr. Holmes’ groundbreaking work examined race within psychoanalysis, observing that race is an essential lens for psychoanalytic understanding because racism has endemic intrapsychic and cultural effects, including traumatic ones.

Dr. Tronick’s seminal work focused on the concept of repair of relational disruptions as a major change process in psychological development and the healing of psychological illness, elaborating on his original model of mutual regulation.

The nonprofit Erikson Institute’s award-winning work demonstrates a commitment to, and investment in providing public and professional education about psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline and an applied theory for understanding human experience.

The award-winning work of Drs. David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff adapts psychoanalysis for those far from a psychoanalytic center and educating analysts to address remote treatment needs.

Dr. Gherovici’s work with marginalized communities began with Latinx and expanded to include gender and sexual variant people.

Dr. Kris’ work has helped to sustain and grow Freud’s theories in an age that has misunderstood and challenged Freud’s relevance, while at the same time providing leadership in a careful reconsideration of them.

Dr. Paren’s innovative research and educational approach to the understanding and treatment of aggression, is highly significant and has contributed to the public good.

Dr. Jacobs’ work introduced the concept of enactment in psychoanalysis and illustrates its key role in the analytic process.

The Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc. through its journal, book and video archive has created a unique and comprehensive database to support psychoanalytic study and scholarship and made it available to professionals and students worldwide.

Dr. Greenberg’s work has focused on creating conversations among analysts working within different conceptual, institutional, and geographic traditions, and participating in those conversations.

Dr. Volkan’s work and research has focused on a new vision of global diplomacy—the application of psychoanalytic thinking between countries and cultures, individual and societal mourning, transgenerational transmissions of trauma and the therapeutic approach to primitive mental states.

Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the United States in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.

Lawrence Friedman was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He attended the University of Chicago (Ph.B, M.A.), received M.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, did Psychiatry Residency at the Yale University Graduate School of Medicine, and worked as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Hospital , Yokosuka, Japan.

Thomas Ogden’s contributions to psychoanalysis have spanned a wide range of subjects including.

Stuart W. Twemlow was born and raised in New Zealand where he received his medical degree (M.B.Ch.B.). Dr Twemlow has a strong Maori heritage. His canoe ( waka), is Tainui, iwi (tribe), is Maniapoto. and hapu, ( sub-tribe or extended family), is Ngati Patupo, who were highly skilled in warfare and were King Tawhiao’s bodyguards.

Dr. Cooper is the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.

Richard C. Friedman combines the commitments and superb clinical skills of a psychoanalyst psychiatrist with those of a researcher/clinician.

Work details coming soon.Warren Poland is an outstanding thinker whose contributions have focused both on the psychoanalytic process and the application of psychoanalytic thought to broad cultural issues.

Sidney Blatt is a rare combination of talented clinical analyst, leading empirical researcher, and integrative personality theorist.